Kuku Nyungkal dialect

Kuku Nyungkal
Gugu Njunggal
Region Annan River, Queensland
Ethnicity Kuku Nyungkal people
Native speakers
 5 (date missing)
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
Glottolog kuku1274[1]
AIATSIS[2] Y90

Kuku Nyungkal (also spelled Kuku Njunggal, Guugu Nyungkul, Gugu Njunggal[3]) is an Australian Aboriginal language and the language of the Kuku Nyungkal people of Far North Queensland. It's a variety of Kuku Yalanji still being spoken (though by fewer people than speak Kuku Yalanji itself).[4] Most of the speakers today live in the communities of Wujal Wujal and Mossman.

The UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger includes Kuku Nyungkal language as part of a larger Kuku Yalanji languages listing, identifying and listing all the Kuku Yalanji languages as a whole as being "severely endangered" [5]

Phonology

Vowels

Kuku Nyungkal has three vowels as follows:[4]

Vowels English equivalent
a as in f a ther
i as in p i t
u as in p u t

Consonants

Kuku Nyungkal has thirteen consonants as follows:[4]

b d j k l m n ny ng r rr w y

All are pronounced as they would be in English, with the rr used for a rolled r, as in the Scottish r.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kuku-Nyungkul". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. ↑ Kuku Nyungkal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ↑ Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Studies "Gugu Nyungkul language (Y90) (Qld SD55-13)" Language and People Thesaurus webpage Accessed 21 January 2011
  4. 1 2 3 Hershberger, Henry & Hershberger Ruth (1986) "Kuku Yalanji Dictionary Summer Institute of Linguistics. Darwin" Accessed 21 January 2010
  5. ↑ UNESCO "Interactive Atlas" UNESCO Atlas of the Worlds languages in danger webpage Accessed 23 January 2011


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